Cigars often come with one end completely sealed by the outer tobacco leaf “wrapper” (not the plastic wrapper), which must be cut open or pierced before lighting them. Simply chopping the end off with a blade can crush and split the wrapper and filler making smoking unpleasant due to innumerable bits of loose tobacco getting into the mouth. A cigar cutter is a tool which has a hole into which the cigar’s end is inserted, or other means of supporting the cigar’s end, so as to make a clean cut.